# Sekisui Chemical expands interlayer film and resin capacity in the Netherlands

Sekisui Chemical is investing approximately 20 billion yen to add a new film line at its Roermond plant and a new resin line at its Geleen plant in the Netherlands. The film line will start in the second half of fiscal 2019, and the resin line in the first half of fiscal 2020.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-01-25
- Where: Roermond and Geleen, Netherlands, Netherlands
- Value: $180.0M (20.0B JPY)
- Starts operating: Q4 2019
- Status: announced
- Capacity: PVB resin: 1.7 times increase; interlayer film: 7 million cars/year increase
- Products: wedge-shaped interlayer film for HUD, raw material resin
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Sekisui Chemical](https://endata.com/companies/2709.md)

## Sources

- [sekisuichemical.com](https://www.sekisuichemical.com/news/2018/1363911_38436.html), 2018-01-25: "SEKISUI CHEMICAL has decided to expand European film production of interlayer film for laminated glass with a new film line at its plant in Roermond, and a new resin line at its plant in Geleen."
- [plantdb.jp](https://plantdb.jp/article/99b106f6-d63f-11ef-9821-0242ac120002), 2018-01-26: "今回、欧州にHUD向けくさび形中間膜の生産ラインを増設するとともに、これらの製膜ライン増強と今後の中間膜市場拡大を踏まえ、中間膜の原料であるポリビニルブチラール樹脂（以下：PVB樹脂）について、欧州で生産ラインの増設を決定した。"

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